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The Waiting Place #1
Waiting Place Volume 1
Laced with humor and rooted with depth, The Waiting Place tracks the lives of a handful of teens and young adults who do their best to deal with their isolated surroundings, and with one another
- GenresGraphic NovelsComics
152 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2001
About the author
Sean McKeever
515 books38 followersAfter writing indie comics (such as the ensemble teen-drama The Waiting Place) for six years, Sean got his big break writing an issue of The Incredible Hulk for Marvel Comics in 2001. Since then, Sean has written hundreds of comics for Marvel, DC Comics and other publishers, including notable runs on Sentinel, Inhumans, Mystique, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Gravity, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Birds of Prey and Teen Titans.
Best known for delivering introspective, character-driven work, Sean also wrote several weeks of the Funky Winkerbean syndicated comic strip, much of which has been reprinted in the celebrated collection, Lisa's story: the other shoe.
In 2005, Sean won the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.
Sean continues to write comic books; he also writes for the videogame and animation industries.
Best known for delivering introspective, character-driven work, Sean also wrote several weeks of the Funky Winkerbean syndicated comic strip, much of which has been reprinted in the celebrated collection, Lisa's story: the other shoe.
In 2005, Sean won the Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.
Sean continues to write comic books; he also writes for the videogame and animation industries.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
October 2, 2021
OK, where does the story go from here? I used to see these individual issues in the shops, from the great B&W publisher Slave Labor Graphics. McKeever got some good work out of this good work, but the art is, well, fair to middling in the realistic depiction of character.
Ok, mildly recommended.
Ok, mildly recommended.
August 23, 2008
I picked up this series in individual issues back when i lived in Wyoming. Halley's Comics in Fort Collins, CO used to bundle whole series together and sell them as a set. So, instead of collecting issues by issue, you could just get the whole thing every month.
Man, I loved that place.
Anyhoo, this is my first experience with Sean McKeever. I really enjoy the way that he writes dialogue, and the intense understanding that he has for the hesitancy and fear that teenagers and twentysomethings experience.
June 27, 2011
It's a shame you don't see many comics like this anymore. While there was clearly a learning curve on the parts of both the artist and the writer, The Waiting Place is a slice of life, soap operatic story where the characters revel themselves slowly over the course of several issues. Like I said, there's some awkwardness throughout, especially in the early issues, but I'm glad I picked this up.
April 30, 2017
I am not entirely sure why I was drawn to pick this volume up at the library. I had heard nothing about it, and I am not sure I thought it looked that overly impressive either. In fact, having brought it home, it ended up lying unread through a few renewals, before I decided to give it a go, since I had after all picked it up in the first place. Initially, I was not overly impressed either, perhaps in part because of not knowing what to expect, really.
The black and white art by Brendon and Brian Fraim is good, but at the same time, it is not the kind of good that leaps from the page and tells you so. Instead, it is slightly more quiet, yet highly qualified in a narrative sense. And Sean Kelley McKeever's story is one that grows on you slowly; bit by bit, immersing the reader in the everyday lives of its characters in the small town of Northern Plains, with their problems and pains, hopes and dreams.
So, from not having known what I was getting into, I came out wanting to read more. I will definitely be on the look out for the continuation of McKeever's narrative.
The black and white art by Brendon and Brian Fraim is good, but at the same time, it is not the kind of good that leaps from the page and tells you so. Instead, it is slightly more quiet, yet highly qualified in a narrative sense. And Sean Kelley McKeever's story is one that grows on you slowly; bit by bit, immersing the reader in the everyday lives of its characters in the small town of Northern Plains, with their problems and pains, hopes and dreams.
So, from not having known what I was getting into, I came out wanting to read more. I will definitely be on the look out for the continuation of McKeever's narrative.
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